Earlier this year, weapons were discovered in two separate locations within three months of one another.

An armor-piercing improvised rocket along with two anti-personnel mines were among the items recovered in Capanagh in May.

The drug charge is for cannabis with intent to supply it to another, while the fraud charges allegedly relate to his possession of bank cards and associated CVC numbers.

Purpose-built holes in woodlands were found full of several pipe bombs, magazines and ammunition as well as bomb component parts, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Two months prior in March, bomb-making equipment was also found nearby at Carnfunnock Country Park.

Maxwell, who reportedly has a Catholic mother and Protestant father, was the victim of a sectarian attack when he was a teenager in his hometown of Larne, sustaining a fractured skull and multiple other injuries when he was beaten up by what he claims was a gang of loyalists with iron bars and golf clubs.